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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

The mother of the boy who recently got Michael Jackson into court on child-touching charges is going to find herself in the dock pretty soon - She's been accused of fraudulently collecting welfare benefits while sitting on USD150,000 she'd picked up from a lawsuit against a department store. How did the authorities find out? A little bird told them...

Or, rather, she got asked about it during the court case.

Somewhat sweetly, she's not being named in court to "protect her son", in case anyone works out that he was the boy at the centre of the case. Because it's just possible that someone might follow this case who didn't hear about the earlier one where he was named. The BBC website shows just how that might be a bit of a forlorn hope: